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Calcutta HC rules Singur Land Act constitutionally invalid | | The Calcutta High Court on Friday ruled that a legislation passed by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's Government to recover land in Singur from Tata Motors is constitutionally invalid. Tata Motors had challenged the order of the single bench of the Calcutta High Court, which had upheld the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act, 2011, by which the West Bengal Government vested the land leased to the company at Singur, before the division bench of the Court. Tata Motors had appealed against the order of Justice I.P. Mukerji, which was passed on September 28 last year. Justice Mukerji had held the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act 2011 to be constitutional. Justice I.P. Mukerji had dismissed Tata Motors' petition that challenged the Singur Land Development and Rehabilitation Act, 2011. Justice Mukerji held the Act 'valid
and constitutional' and agreed that return of land was in public interest. The
land had been allotted to the Tatas by the erstwhile state government ruled by
the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) led Left Front for building a motor
car plant in the Singur area. The Trinamool Congress (TMC), which was then the
main opposition in West Bengal , had demanded return of 400 acre to farmers unwilling
to give land for the project. After Banerjee was elected the chief minister, she
passed the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act 2011.
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